(CNN) – Thousands attended the funeral of Michael Brown, the unarmed black teenager shot dead by a white police officer. And while it was a moving, emotional ceremony, one state senator says it was also a missed opportunity.FULL POST

And beyond that, it is a community that is angry – angry about what it sees as yet another unnecessary death of a young African American man.

Throughout these past 16 days, many outside St. Louis, commenting on all the attention given to Michael Brown's death, have asked why we in the media aren't covering others deaths with the same intensity?FULL POST

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